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Computer Gaming / Re: What’s Happening in the Ga...
Last post by rss334 - Today at 08:51:14 AMHere's my take broken down to simple form. Bigger game studios are under pressure whether from shareholder or capital investors to turn a quick profit. What starts out as a great studio ends up switching focus on great games to complete focus of turning a profit. The managers are forced to meet unreasonable deadlines and deliver X product(s) per quarter to get the cash register ringing.
As a result the quality of these games from the studios continues to decline. Gamers are waking up to this, how many sequels now like Kerbal Space 2 and Skylines 2 have all negative ratings, these are not the only ones. These studio begin to lose money and the first thing they do is cut more staff only adding to their problems. I'll take Paradox as an example, look at the content they are now pumping out almost monthly for EU4, CK3, Stellaris - I'm guessing they are losing money on everything else they are releasing. I fully expect to them fold in the next year.
All because they lost focus on creating great games with good content and instead are chasing the dollar.
So the root of the problem is simply GREED. Its no different than other industry, the companies get bigger and stop caring about their employees and customers, quality suffers, layoffs ensue .... all to make that might DOLLAR any way they can!
As a result the quality of these games from the studios continues to decline. Gamers are waking up to this, how many sequels now like Kerbal Space 2 and Skylines 2 have all negative ratings, these are not the only ones. These studio begin to lose money and the first thing they do is cut more staff only adding to their problems. I'll take Paradox as an example, look at the content they are now pumping out almost monthly for EU4, CK3, Stellaris - I'm guessing they are losing money on everything else they are releasing. I fully expect to them fold in the next year.
All because they lost focus on creating great games with good content and instead are chasing the dollar.
So the root of the problem is simply GREED. Its no different than other industry, the companies get bigger and stop caring about their employees and customers, quality suffers, layoffs ensue .... all to make that might DOLLAR any way they can!
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GrogHeads Feedback / Re: Grogheads AAR! Second Fron...
Last post by W8taminute - Today at 08:08:06 AMVery nice write up Uberhaus! This will make a good lunch time read while at work.
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Computer Gaming / Re: Kingmakers
Last post by W8taminute - Today at 08:06:04 AMI wishlisted this a while ago. Game looks fun.
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Tabletop AARs / Re: Scorpion and Wyvern 1870
Last post by W8taminute - Today at 08:05:02 AMThis game looks very interesting. Those ship stats in the first post give me some great ideas for use in my personal mods.
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Computer Gaming / Re: What’s Happening in the Ga...
Last post by W8taminute - Today at 08:03:12 AMThis is definitely disheartening news to hear. No doubt companies are going to rely on AI to create video games, thus eliminating the need for human skills.
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Computer Gaming / Re: Field of Glory: Kingdoms d...
Last post by Grim.Reaper - Today at 05:37:43 AMQuote from: AchillesLastStand on Yesterday at 11:30:11 PMGot an invite to test it a few months ago, notice it appears{?} the game is still in my Steam library. Would be cool if they gave testers a free copy but not counting on it.
Not sure if changed or dependent on the developer, but testing for Matrix/Slitherine, don't believe I ever got a free game after testing, although I think in most cases did get a decent discount.
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Computer Gaming / Re: Campaign Series Middle Eas...
Last post by Jason Petho - Today at 12:50:13 AMThere was some show and tell today about the Iraqi's, I've been making some really good progress on them. There was some news and I fired up a recommended scenario to play to see how it goes. We started with Alan Arvold's Valley of Tears scenario "Opening Moves". I thought it would be a tricky scenario at the beginning as the long range guns of the Israeli tanks was making life a living he-double-hockey sticks. Then I noticed a flaw in the Israeli defences and exploited it. Muhahahaha!
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Computer Gaming / Re: Field of Glory: Kingdoms d...
Last post by AchillesLastStand - Yesterday at 11:30:11 PMGot an invite to test it a few months ago, notice it appears{?} the game is still in my Steam library. Would be cool if they gave testers a free copy but not counting on it.
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Computer Gaming / Re: Field of Glory: Kingdoms d...
Last post by CJReich46 - Yesterday at 10:00:47 PM
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Computer Gaming / Re: What’s Happening in the Ga...
Last post by Sir Slash - Yesterday at 09:38:26 PM
